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Creator and librettist Cerise Jacobs and her activist opera company, White Snake Projects, have announced the second season of the community engagement initiative Sing Out Strong, fostering the creation of new songs on themes arising from the company's mainstage operas.

The Spokesman-Review has reported that Inland Northwest opera is working on the steps required to reopen the company.

This May, Canadian Opera Company invites music lovers of all ages and backgrounds to join the community Virtual Choir for a performance of one of the most rousing pieces in the history of opera, Verdi's “Anvil Chorus” from Il Trovatore.

According to OperaWire, Opera in the Heights has announced its 2020-21 season.

Mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard hosts premiere of Living Room Music series, a livestream gathering of multidisciplinary artists.

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Tonight, May 7, 2020, the New York Philharmonic will live stream a concert from 1997 featuring Renée Fleming.

The News International has reported that Paris Opera is looking at losses of 40 million euros ($43 million) this year.

The Met has announced the Week 9 schedule for its Nightly Met Opera Streams, a free series of encore Live in HD presentations streamed on the company website during the coronavirus closure.

Philip Glass's new opera, Circus Days and Nights will have its world premiere in 2021 in Sweden at Malmo Opera.

On 11 May at 8.

Madison Opera's Opera in the Park will be moving on-line this summer, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Glimmerglass Festival, the central New York opera and music theater festival, will not host any live performances in summer 2020 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

The California Arts Council has awarded San Diego Opera four grants totaling $77,000 which will help support the Company's extensive education programs.

Composer Anthony Davis has won the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his opera, The Central Park Five.

MassOpera is presenting a virtual fundraising event Mother's Day Songs and Shout-outs.

On May 7 at 7pm ET on youngarts.

Opera Australia was forced to cancel its upcoming production of 'The Secret Garden', based on the classic children's book.

#OperaHarmony has brought together 19 groups, set to release exciting micro-operitas from May via YouTube, reflecting how creativity can still flourish in these uncertain times.

Over the last five years, Opera Philadelphia has presented an impressive group of new operas it has commissioned, along with some classics from the standard rep.

The South African has reported on Ipeleng Kgatle, an opera student at University of Music and Performing Arts, who is bringing positivity into the world through song!

University of North Texas Press announces the May 2020 publication of Conducting Opera: Where Theater Meets Music by renowned conductor Joseph Rescigno.

Vancouver Opera is mobilizing to answer the public need for non-surgical grade masks during COVID-19.

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In 2019, renowned mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato created a series of master classes focusing on opera arias.